Boneychest & Catsuey

I make no claims..... I AM in the top 100% (along with everyone else). Seriously though, thanks for your opinion on Fugawi - I certainly wont waste my money now.

Our first cache hidden, but second to get approved due to the time it took to get written permission, even though we had verbal agreement months previously.

Nope! My Garmin Vista has never indicated a WAAS satellite - I guess due to the 'ignore' flag and so I turn it on occasionally just to check but then turn it off again. No idea about battery life but I know that they run down fairly rapidly when its on the map page.

A GPSr was left at one of our caches last summer and the loser (in the nicest possible way) didn't log their find or a DNF. We left a note on the cache page but nobody has claimed it. Another friendly insurance company, perhaps.

No 22 is Boneychest - nice halo effect

Hmmm.. sounds interesting. Not sure that my Blackbird wants to go exploring green lanes though - especially with so many Bandits out in the countryside

You can "search by town" at Geocacheuk.com GUK: Caches. Not every town and village is listed but I have always found it easy to find a town in the database that is close enough to where I want to go caching. The results list links to the main cache listings on Geocaching.com Enjoy your stay

We did one of Pharisee's with an offset for the final location. Tried it using the GPS and couldn't be sure that we were in the righ place (or direction) so switched to the trusty Silva compass and paced the distance. Easy peasy, although it still took some searching to locate the micro!

What do you have against webcam caches? I don't have all the technology to catch myself on camera (or any friends! ) so I don't go looking for them.

It looks like somebody has finally switched onto 'corporate identity' and has made the page background colours fit the covert nature of the sport i.e. olive drab, the same as the "Official Geocache" stickers. The buttons and stuff have just been updated to match the Windows XP style - nothing wrong with that, everyone's doing it (and there are more buttons, so more features). Personally.... I like it - especially being able to ignore webcam caches.

Is there room for a level playing field in Shetland?

I tried to enter once but the site was down or something - kept getting some sort of rejection message , and then never got around to it again. It would be great if you could just "opt-in" and then have your score generated automatically and included in the table (with or without Trigs). Reasons for not entering - remembering to do it, time, bad experience from trying last time. I will go and enter our single find NOW.

OK, so I said before that we wouldn't bother with them..... But they look great so I have changed our minds! BC

W can't find it (there are a lot of them you know, and they all look the same!) If you give us the grid ref or coords then we might not have quite so much trouble.

Must be a bargain - their price for the yellow Extrex is £136! Apart from the camouflage, what's the difference - from the Garmin website all I can find is the number of tracklog points, 1536 for the yellow and 2000 for the camo. More than enough for most of us. Ourselves - Catsuey uses the yellow Etrex and finds most of the caches, I use the Vista and use it to navigate to the parking spot (and occasionally find the cache). BC

Added attributes to one of our listings this morning but I don't think they are as helpful or as prominent as those generated by The Selector, which I will probably stick with.

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It's been said on these forums before - they routinely do virtuals from the desktop on the continent. These guys are playing the game to their accepted rules. Look at the cache find requirements "email the answer" - if they have done that then they can claim the find! Take a look at this one. Only a hanful of people have ever been there but plenty have logged it. Slightly off topic - how do you leave a travel bug at a virtual?

I downloaded the database of all trigpoints yesterday (13.6MB) and imported it into GSAK. Watch out COTM - here we come!

Brilliant!

How can this be... haven't they seen how you have handled things 'over here'? You certainly have our respect and our thanks for all your hard work. It is a very sad day indeed, but hopefully you will both have the inclination (now that you have some extra free time) to find even more caches.

OK then... what about a traditional cache? What if someone finds a traditional cache by accident, signs the log and then takes up geocaching a year or more later and claims the find? That would be ok wouldn't it "TNLNSL". A virtual cache is only asking you to visit the coordinates - if you have done that then you have found the cache (virtually) as long as the thing you are supposed to find was there when you visited it! I agree though that if the listing asks for proof then it should be supplied but 'person on top of hill with recognisable background' should be adequate, with or without GPSR in hand. I have to admit that I'm not a great fan of virtual caches, and I have visited Pen-Y-Fan many times prior to starting geocaching but never considered claiming it as a find without going back again (one day....) but why not? <_<

7.6 miles. It's been found twice so far and we really must get on and do it!

I too read the original thread without adding any comment, partly because I didn't know all the facts but mostly because it started to get too personal. We also don't know all the facts here... it is just possible that the cache was muggled and the timing of the highly offensive email was coincidence but it seems too much of a coincidence to me. I hope that the perpetrator has read this thread and feels more than a little guilty about his actions. I also hope that taishindojim reinstates the cache because it looked like an interesting one in a fairly barren part of the country. I think that most of us are in agreement about the rights and wrongs of this incident and now that I have had my little rant I am closing the topic. Thanks to those of you that have helped restore my faith.

We were quite chuffed to see one of our caches rated on the T&J Bears link on GCUK, but I fear that giving low scores to a my-first-hide might stop the setter hiding any more. edit - cr*p grammar